Annihilation

“The BBC has uncovered details of a secret deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their families escape from Raqqa, under the gaze of the US and British-led coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control the city.

A convoy included some of ISâ€™s most notorious members and â€“ despite reassurances â€“ dozens of foreign fighters. Some of those have spread out across Syria, even making it as far as Turkey.”

See Raqqa’s dirty secretDonald Trump has often touted how tough he would be on Murdering Bastards in Syria but it turns out his crew allowed hundreds of the bastards leave Raqqa in a convoy to avoid a fight to the death. It’s not clear what the outcome of that escape is but it’s not what Trump promised and these bastards will probably end up costing more lives and treasure for some time to come.

I get military expediency. I get minimizing imminent deaths. I don’t get why Trump trumpets one thing and does another. USA is just a part of the attack on the murdering bastards but Trump wants to take all the credit and avoid all the blame, like a child lying to parents. A child can be forgiven for telling little lies. Trump’s lies are too enormous to forgive. Don’t forget at the next opportunity to vote Trump and his supporters out of office. They are not making the world a better place. Trump promised annihilation and delivered a route for escape.

About Robert Pogson

I am a retired teacher in Canada. I taught in the subject areas where I have worked for almost forty years: maths, physics, chemistry and computers. I love hunting, fishing, picking berries and mushrooms, too.

I suggest you go out, get a job and quit living in your motherâ€™s basement.

Thanks for your concern, I do appreciate it, but you are too late, Robert. I did all those three more than 20 years ago. I even got (and still have) three jobs, all related to programming and software development.

Grece wrote, “People who are able to do something well can do that thing for a living, while people who are not able to do anything that well make a living by teaching.”

Or, some people like me learn to do stuff well and then teach others. I was paid to be a computer programmer, an accelerator physicist, a cyclotron operator, a welder, and a teacher. Most of the people with whom I worked respected me, unlike Grece, who seems to think the worst of everyone but himself.

Robert goes on and on about Trump, while ranting and raving about advantages of Linux, but never accomplishing any of his goals meanwhile. It reminds me of those men you meet at the bar, blabbering on and on about how they did this and that, can do this and that, but is just blowing smoke and everyone else at the bar knows it.

People like that, cannot express themselves at home, due to a domineering woman, such as Robert has in his life.

You see to miss the fact that Trump really doesn’t direct anything. If there were some credit to be taken, Trump would claim the lion’s share to be sure, but the real truth is that ISIS lost due to the inevitable attrition caused by a lack of critical mass. Don’t blame Trump for lack of resolve.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. Now that I'm retired I still use GNU/Linux on every computer in my home except the smartphones which run Android/Linux.

Lately, I've been giving lots of thought to the world I inherited and which I will leave to my descendants. I'm planting grass, trees, flowers and vegetables in my large lot and I've ordered a Solo EV. I plan to charge my Solo by means of a tracking solar array. Life is good if you have a purpose. I do.